The Passover Haggadah: Accessing the 50th Gate - Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

again dedicated by the Zakishbasim for their whole families. Tonight is dedicated by my dear friend Elli and Mrs. Sisma for the upcoming yard site of his father Shabsi Benak which was right before PES for their whole family is also dedicated by my dear friend Dr. Samasak. Okay, we have a very interesting uh share tonight. Before we start, public service announcement. Uh just making sure everybody has their information and books for the sedar. Hagada in English. The Hagada is in English. Somebody asked me if they could get the Hagada in Japanese. That's not available yet in Japanese, but you could get it in Spanish and French. So if you want to say the manastana in a new language, um why not? Now's your opportunity. So you take out the English one, you compare it to the French and you can learn a new language also. And then on Pesam on Pes and Pes, this is available if anybody wants to mish upcoming. Next safer in the queue is the safer Yeshua of the published by Hashem by our scroll. um in time for the three weeks. Okay, here we go. We know that opens up with actually I just saw um yesterday morning your father brought me over. Yeah. And there's an opinion that one of the authors of the Hagada or the author of the Hagada is El Yanavi. And we even put in this Hagada. There used to be a fellow who sat right over there. Yes. It's right where you're sitting. Ezra Cohen. He's from Israel and he was living in Philadelphia. And he once told me that or if the author of the Hagad is Elanovi. So then we understand why the first word of the Hagada is H. H is Rasha. It's Elanovi. Usually an author alludes to his name. So in the he brings down from one of the that in fact he brings that reme but we already we beat him to it. We already had it in the from the guy who used to come to the sh. But any event we're going to talk about potentially another author of the but ina we say something very unusual. Okay we start the we say this is the poor man's bread when we were living in Egypt. It's not like we had delicacies. We didn't have meat. We didn't have fish. We ate matzah. simple food. It was hard to digest. It stayed in the system a long time. And then we say something surprising. Okay, it's the night of the sedar. We're supposed to be preparing for the mitzvah of the day and all of a sudden we make the following declaration. Anyone who's hungry, come and eat. Like where exactly does that come into the how does that fit into a hungry come and eat? Anyone who needs to partake of the like where does that come in? What does it have to do with mid that has something to do with mag that has something to do with matzah? Why are we making this declaration? And why do we make the declaration in the opening paragraph of the hagada? It's interesting. We don't do it by kadesh. We don't do it by we're we're somewhat already into the hagada. We do it in what's the meaning. Okay. I want to bring to your attention a few that actually consist of the main part of the hagada there. You will speak up and you will say before Hashem arami who's arami that's subjugated made our father work for him we went down to Egypt we dwelled there with few number and we we were there as a great people mighty and numerous The Egyptians dealt evily with us. They afflicted us. They put on us a hard labor. We cried out to Hashem. God heard our voice. He saw our affliction. He saw our toil. our oppression. Do these seem familiar to you? I would hope so. These are the main of and we these in other words aside from the fact that you have to say because the Ram says it has to be in a question and answer format. Aside from giving an answer to the man, aside from aside from giving the reasons for the mitzvah, we make a big deal out of these four. Do you know we dion these? Now what's interesting is when the it says oh you know what it means it cites a sham you know what it means in it you know what it means it you know what it means it quotes I'm happy I'm going to use this from Man, why would we go to sukim and kis which are a random collection of sukim about a guy who has a pomegranate that ripened on his farm that he brings up to and he goes up to and he makes this declaration and in order to explain these that he made that he says we quoteim in just quote theim and sham that talk about as the This is night. This is the story of why in the world are we quoting and to explain it go to theukim that describe how it happened in real time. Go straight to the pukim that describe how it happened in real time. You ever wonder about that? Why are we quoting this is the main body of the hagada. Did you realize that it occupies the most space in these? So then why would we go to that are not really the actual live description of the events of and in order to explain them quote by the way the Rambam even adds besides for the fact that the Rambam says I'm sorry I have to say this maybe um maybe I'll I'll bring this out in but first I want to take the opportunity to make sure that everybody knows Shabaso is 6 p.m. The sh is located at 5:30 peninsula. The door will be open. Okay. 6 p.m. You got it. Don't say you forgot. I'm going to say it again. 6 p.m. And we take attendance, meaning I take attendance, meaning I'll remember if you were there. And I take it very personally. But besides that, really no pressure. You should feel comfortable to go whoever show you want as long as it's either before or after mine and don't say it will be recorded. No, no, no. That's for your business if you want to listen to the recording afterwards anyway. But you really shouldn't feel any pressure. You could go wherever you want, wherever you feel the most inspiration as long as you come to mine. Okay. So the Ram says well I was telling about you know the Ram says when you talk about the events of Mim the more you speak the better off you know a guy gave a dr yesterday for 25 hours he gave a 25hour drasha it was only 24 hours and 59 minutes too long he could have stopped after after you know he stood up so this It's not common that we say usually we say you know were you able would you you think you could have said that in like a few minutes? Yeah, I think so. Then you should have right. So, but yet when it comes to events of time, we say, but then the did you know the Rambam adds the Rambam says besides besides the we know of and about which we say. The Ram says in the Ram says, "Anyone who expands on this para a lot aside from besides dioning and speaking out, the more You expound upon these four what is significant about these four talk about the paras of you know would say that when we l during the middle of the winter you already have a pes because the para influences so why on p do we jump to kis why don't we expound the directly talk about okay so I'm very happy because in the English edition of this Hagada, we did something revolutionary that I never saw in any Hagada except this year a new Hagada came out and it used this model as well. Now I want to tell you tough I went to the swarm store today. They said tshini stands for um tia shinas hagadis. This is the year of new Hagadas. It's true. More good Hagadas came out this year than any other year. I'm going to tell you just as an aside, you know, my personal recommendation. Four all-time great Hagadas came out this year. Really, four of the best all times. Number one first came out my my friend Mave Torra from Hershel Freiedman put out the Hagada of Rabel. An amazing Hagada. Next week we're going to use it. I don't know. Next week the the sh will will be either Tuesday night or Wednesday night. We'll see. Um the amazing amazing m they have they have people over over 10 people on staff full time working on the kadush of then I went to the store and I went to the store to get the hagada of the pinas freedman. This hagada was many years in the making. the freedom told me a few years ago he was working on it. He's working on it but it wasn't ready. You can imagine how many has and then for some reason I decided in the middle of the day I'm going to go to the store even though I didn't pick the right time because I was circling and circling and circling and circling. I said is I'm sure there's a good reason why I went out now and sure enough I went into the store and the hag of the pin came to the store from and I bought a bunch of them. I bought for my father and some my anyway. So I called up the pinas and he said, "Oh, you got my Hagada. How did you know it was out?" I said, "Rebi, is that a serious question?" Somehow as soon as it came to the store, I got a divine message. I need to go to the store. Seriously. And he was muskim that no. Yeah. That that's obviously what happened. Nobody told me really that's what happened. Now when I was there the story told me told me that next to the is called lead. So it's like I don't Msiah has to come this year. In fact I was talking to my friend Bronstein and he said he thinks that we should make a we should make a second. There's not enough time to learn all these this year. You know the garra talks about made a second ador when niss already started. You can't really do that. But maybe this would warrant making an ibriar just to be have time to learn these. Plus I got the you know and then today I had to go to the store again cuz they came out with you know. So those are those are four good hagadas. Anyway, you'll see where I'm going. Faji wrote two Hagadas. He wrote a Hagada and he wrote a Hagada and ini says that he was a play on words not but counting the statements. He counted the piska in the a piskah is like a paragraph. Does anybody know how many paragraphs in the hagada from Israel? How many so to speak chapters in the Hagada says he counted not more and not less than 50 pis in the Hagada. Now when I was putting out the Hagada I told art scroll that I want Dagada to mark off by every piska piska alf pisk piska giml piska dal. So it passed like the first three rounds of editing and then right before I went to print I got a phone call you know what is this what are these numbers of the pisc I said what do you mean says there 50 chap they said is this the I said no this is my but I want it to be like that when you put out the hagada you could mark it like that I said but this is like a gold mine this is a treasure So what they allowed me to do if you take a look at number six is before mid I list the 50 chapter headings but I was not given authorization to actually mark off in the hagada what the 50 chapters are. But this year the pin hagada came out and he presents the hagada each each piece shall shimlid and he says this has never been done before and this is based on I didn't want to say okay I you know um but anyway so I'm happy that this is starting a trend and says what's the significance of 50 pesco in the hagad says, "Cuz if you look in tune z and in other places in the how many times in the does it say took us out of 50 times in the it says it says 50 times in why to show that came from the kamishim shar From the 50 gates of wisdom the rash says there 50 gates of wisdom they were all given to except for one just missing the alf. Okay this we spoke about many many times that was with the 50th gate of wisdom. The 50th gate of wisdom. Now it's not so simple to understand this because many many times we've said that Mosher Rabenu only had the capacity for the 49th level of wisdom and that's why we had a leave at that moment because if we would have fallen to the 50th level Mosha Raben who only had the 49th level of could not have yanked us out the 49th level of wisdom so we fell to the 49th level of tumosha could still yank us out but here is saying was with the kayak of kamishim. So in his brand new hagada says that even though the kayak of was with the kayak of kamishim rau still only had the capacity to absorb 49 of those levels. So the was with the mohab had the capacity to absorb only 49. That's why do you remember we said many times over the years that's why said What are you giving me the job for? Give it to someone else. Who? Rabbi. Why did want to pass the baton to Rabika? Because Rabaka actually knew the shaun. He knew the 50th level. We say about Rabaka Yaka ano. He saw Yakar. Remember Rabika is called Yakar. And we're going to see what does this have to do with parasikra. Okay, we're going to see this has a lot to do with Rabbi is called Yakaroi. He had the 50th level of kadusha. So Mosha says, "Why are you giving me the job and now I'm under stress to get them out immediately because if they fall to the 50th, they're stuck forever. Give the job to Rabika. They could hang around in the gulas for a little bit longer and Rabika could yank them out." says, "The reason why the Hagada has 50 pesk is the 50 levels of bina that were activated to take the Jewish people out of even though only had 49." And the truth is because only had 49, it was not an eternal salvation. We still had to go into galas again. That's why we're in the five towns. By the way, you know that the five towns is gull. You know that this is not this is not said there's something called you shalim right that we're hoping to go to. So in other words central avenue is not let's say the ultimate destination even though let's say you have a very nice house I don't know it's not so necessary have a good house be comfortable but don't overdo it cuz you're not staying here too long anyway what if tomorrow Msiah comes you think you're taking all those tiles with you. you're going to it's kadai to pour over these books of tiles studying it like it'd be the maram shif but you know you're not taking that with you anyway can't take it with you so anyway we're not in gula now we're in gulos and we needed the sha nun to have an eternal gulos to have eternal gula access 49 but the kayak of the gula was with the shun that's why there 50 chapters in the oh that's why we say in the beginning of the is 50. Call is 50. says now quotes the the muser rebel of Ismir who sites who says that is mentioned 50 times in the and the reason is to remember the great of that if we remained in a moment longer we would have fallen to the point of no return now it's very interesting Now I'm going to show you that we added and the pin in his new hagada also has this point that the 50th segment of the hagada is the bra of why because the gul was with the shun was with the the 50th level of kadusha that's why the 50th level is associated with the ofanu this is rabai an idea that the talks about in Uh I put on the sheet over here that is written 50 times in the by the way. We once had a shir that the tikun says 50 times 25 times in the kish and 25 times invar. And then the grass says, "Yeah, what do you mean?" But it's really 23 or 22 in Dvarim and the other three are in parasal. And we learned that Balak and Dvarim are on the same level of Tyra. Okay. But in any event, there are 50 times that it says in the You ready? comes to Pinas and I had this to speak with him yesterday cuz I wished him on the new Hagada. So I was to get a call from the Pinas and he told me what the highlights of the new Hagada are. He told me which piece now he told me which piece it was Kadai for him to come down to this world to put in the Hagada. And he brings an amazing revelation of Mosha Wolfson to explain why we bring the paras as the main body of we have the by written by the ramach the ramach's great safer is called paradesim in paradesim the raach has the following question it doesn't say 50 times. It says it 61 times. So he says it's only counting the times where the Torah is telling you remember this. remember I took you out of but if it just mentions going out of mit as a point of reference that doesn't make the count okay that doesn't make the list says wolfson that means there only 50 times the says remember that you left mitzim according to the ramach do you know what the 50th time the says that you left mitim it happens to be a little paras You know why the main body of the are these? Because since the was with the 50th level of and the 50th level of corresponds to the 50th time is mentioned in the and the 50th time is mentioned is are the therefore the emphasis of the is on these because these are theim that activated it's like it's like okay the reason we emphasize theseim is because This puk corresponds to the 50th time Hashem took us out of um the 50th time mentioned Hashem took us and that is the kayak with which Hashem took. So says putting together and wolf we can answer a very important question. Can we look back at the Does anybody know from which word do we start expounding in the Hagada? Which word do we which word is the first word that we start to don? Uh yeah. What happened to the first five words? How come we don't say anything about them? Like who decided we just like start the Pak? You could add what about why don't we talk about those says based on he did a very simple count do you know how many words there are beginning with until the last word 50 words they're 50 words so it's not just we pick these because theseim are the 50th mention which is a which took a but these word it's not just these were selected these words were selected 50 words now there are 50 pis of the that means the is relating the kayak of the shun that took us out of so at 657 I called up the pin today and I said putting together and Raosha Wolfson and the Pinas could we add could we add who's the author of the Hagada so we saw many years ago that inherim says the author of the isaka and we've explained why did write the hagada because knows that is the to the future redemption and the future redemption has to do with full-fledged Shaun and only Rabbi has the Shaun. So you think it's a coincidence? Look at if the author is Rabbi Aaka, the only individual who knew the Shaun, you think it's a coincidence that the pattern that he used to write the Hagada is he composed 50 chapters and it's based upon it's based upon theim that contained 50 words. The man who's mastered 50 composed the book of 50 chapters based on 50 words. I I felt I had to call the I said you know what about the he said I saw that already. He said I saw that already. You said you said that he can't do it can't do it because he only have I only have 49. If I take them out I have to take them out now. No but it's not Moshe that's taking them out. Hashem is taken. Yeah, but Moshe is the the intermediary. So he So whatever Hashem wants, he can do. He could be they could be in the 60th level. Hashem wants to take them out, he'll take them out. But Hashem only wanted to take them out through someone. So because he only had 49, he had to take them out then. Actually says that in our times, even if we sink to the 50th, we have the Tory now and we could get out of the Shaun. Okay, Rabai. So this is really an amazing discovery. If you just highlight the idea that the Hagada has 50 chapters based on the that is the 50th time is mentioned in the based upon the 50 words in written by Rabaka who was the only individual who knew the shon comes to say from Mas. Masar was written by Rabbi Lzar of Amsterdam. He wrote Maserh is a very uh eminent safer mas is quoted many times by and the says something astounding. He says he's not convinced that Hashem actually used the full-fledged shaun to take us out. There are indications that only 49 were used. The lion of the z is it has to do with yah. Even though yo means 50 but the numerical value of v is 49. The lion of the z is and we know that what was missing is al if he was he was missing one little level. There's an interesting babas. Take a look at number nine. Thearabas says Greater is someone who does in secret. greater than by it says I was afraid of the and if you give secretly sedaka secretly suppresses anger says the you know the garra says alf gimmel alf gimmel. Why is the dalid facing away from the gimmel? Because you give the dal, you give the poor man secretly that he shouldn't be embarrassed. You know why was missing an al if bina in the al if of the 50 gates? Because the gamarra says there's something about giving sodaka secretly that's even more thanu. So what is it about giving sodaka secretly that's even greater than my shabenu says the master a great revelation when you give sedaka secretly you can access the shaon now this is not like I dec I woke up in the morning and said by the way you know I just want to let you know I decided that if you give sodaka secretly you access the shaon this is a mash mash was a uh an eminent who even quotes he he was ash I think the I think the bellba comes from the master but this many hundreds of years ago says this is a great revelation the the shina the 50th level could be accessed by giving taka secretly oh says Does the master now we know why the hagada begins called normally how do you give sodaka the standing outside he presses the button you say on your intercom who's there so the guy says ployy the honey you know everyone wakes up and the whole block hears just wait right there could you open up for me no I'll send out the check in the mail slot so Now, everyone on the block knows um but the says, "But but maybe I want to discuss how much you're giving me." You say, "Don't worry. I'm giving you $36 and nothing more. There's nothing to discuss." So now everybody knows the at your front door. You've broadcasted that it's $36. And then you sent out your community chat how much you gave him so that nobody should give more, nobody should give less. So normally it's the is and the you give is not so the night of the night of the sedar you say I want you to come into my house nobody's going to know you're here nobody's going to know what I give you I'm going to give you by doing so I'm going to access the 50 sharina because the 50 sharina are needed so that yity could be eternal so we don't have to go back into gullus that's why the hagada includes includes this phrase. In fact, you know that is the son of he says like this may how did get out of with the shun with the 50th gate of wisdom. But the question is how did Moshe have it? Moshe didn't have the 50th. He only had 49. The answer is nobody in history gave more charity in private than supported his whole family. So so since he always gave secretly so I didn't have the you know did Moshe always looked why do you think you know they're leaving Moshe says we need we need the coffin typically when you're trying to escape you don't escape like with your main ammunition is a box with bones in it. You know that's usually not at the lead of an escape but says come everyone and you know at the head of the line is they're walking around with a box of bones who y they get to the yam they need y they leave m they need why is so important the answer is you can't leave without the shaun you can't access the shaun without that's why they're walking around that's why we say you on call. You want the 50th gate, you got to feed the secretly. Call is 50, right? Call. So brings in his agit says the end of kadusha is always intertwined with the beginning of kaduca like a flame is tied to a coal. Kadusha, the end and the beginning are always tied. You think it's a coincidence that in the first piskah of the hagada there 50 pisk the point of the 50 pisk is to access the shaun in the very first piskah it already alludes to the 50th piskah and how to access it and that is so I would add that's why we say oh you're accessing the shaun then I have good news for That is the key to that's how we're going to ensure that this year we're here. Next year we'll be in this is the introduction to the has 50 parts. Why? Because took us out with the shaun. How are we going to access the shaun? What's the main body of the 50th time says mentioned that's why we focus on the how many words do we so to speak cut out to emphasize 50 words who wrote the rabbi what's he got to do with it he's the only one who knew the shaun and in the first pisc we already reference how to access the kayak of the shon. And if we do that then we'll be that's the we left with the but we have to maybe that's why in the very of the Rama says the to give that's the first in why because this whole thing is about we're commemorating it in in order to create the but the key is have a wonderful night Sure.